Natalia Petkov is a multimedia artist whose work examines the fragility of ecological systems through photographic processes, video, glass, and experimental printmaking. Working through direct encounters with changing landscapes, she creates process-based works that explore environmental transformation, memory, and disappearance. Her practice engages natural forces and materials including light, water, ice, salt, plants, and geological forms as active collaborators in the making of each work. Her research has been shaped by immersive experiences in remote environments, including artist residencies at the Burren College of Art in County Clare, Ireland, and The Arctic Circle Art and Science Expedition, where she lived and worked aboard a sailing vessel in the high Arctic alongside artists and researchers. These experiences have informed an evolving body of work investigating sea ice, glacial melt, coastal ecosystems, and the interconnected relationships between environmental change and material memory.

Petkov received her MFA from Pratt Institute in 2021. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including exhibitions at the Burren College of Art in Ireland, the Roxbury Art Center in New York, the Main Line Art Center in Philadelphia, the Hatch Gallery in Detroit, and the Elliott Museum in Florida. She was recognized as a Photolucida Critical Mass Top 200 finalist in 2024 and received the Photography Award at the Greenwich Art Society's Annual Juried Exhibition, juried by David Max Horowitz, Assistant Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Her work has been featured in Hyperallergic, Whitehot Magazine, WPKN's Live Culture, and JoonAng in South Korea. Petkov lives and works in New York City where she continues to develop interdisciplinary projects that investigate how artmaking can serve as forms of ecological witnessing and material archives of environmental change.